#StudentBlackOut protests demand change across then country

Here’s a look at some of the actions today, as we close out The Guardian’s liveblog of #StudentBlackOut protests across the country.

Demonstrations gathered at preeminent institutions such as Harvard, Tufts and Princeton, and state schools such as Towson University alike. Studentsprotested what activists saw as institutional racism.

The “day of action” was called for by the Black Liberation Collective, a group organized by far-flung student activists hoping to accelerate the anti-racism student movement’s momentum.

At Princeton, protesters continue to occupy the university president’s office, calling for change.

Administrators there also did away with the “masters” title for heads of colleges. Without mentioning race, administrators said the titles were “historically vexed”.

Many students demanded schools give free tuition for black and indigenous students and that institutions divest fromfor-profit prisons.

Some schools called for change specific to their institution. At University of Cincinnati, students called for police who were at the scene of a shooting of an unarmed black man to be barred from patrolling campus.

Demonstrations are expected to continue through the evening, as another wave of protests begin at campuses in California.

Some celebrities took notice of the protests – actress Laverne Cox tweeted her approval of the #StudentBlackOut protests.

Yik Yak continued to be a forum for discussion of race on campus, though there were no known threats to students (as there were last week at the University of Missouri).

Canadian schools also took part, including at the University of Ottawa, University of Toronto, and Ryerson University.

8.45pm GMT

Students at Tufts University have just walked out of class. There, students have used the hashtag #thethreepercent to highlight the school’s percentage of black students.

Just 4% of Tufts students are black, and only 84% graduate after six years (known as a retention rate), the lowest of any ethnicity at the school. As a point of comparison, 94% of white students at Tufts graduate after six years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

The first demand from activists there is that two university police officers, Phillip Kid and David Lindenschmidt, be barred from patrolling campus. The two officers were on scene after fellow university police officer Ray Tensing shot and killed a 43-year-old unarmed black man, Sam DuBose.

Princeton does away with ‘masters’ titles for college heads

Still more Princeton news here: without ever mentioning race or protests, the university announces “masters” of the residential colleges will change their titles to “heads” of colleges, effective immediately.

The former ‘masters’ of our six residential colleges have long been in conversation with the Office of the Dean of the College about their anachronistic, historically vexed titles,” Dean of the College Jill Dolan said in a press release. “We believe that calling them ‘head of the college’ better captures the spirit of their work and their contributions to campus residential life.”

The school’s president, Christopher L Eisgruber, whose office is currently being occupied, also commented on the name change.

I enthusiastically support the change adopted by our heads of college… The new title better describes their roles, and it does away with antiquated terminology that discomfited some students, faculty, and the heads of college themselves.”

7.12pm GMT

As the Princeton Press Club points out, one of the largest forums for discussion of race (and for backlash against protesters) on college campuses has been the pseudo-anonymous sharing app Yik Yak.

We call it pseudo-anonymous because the company gathers at least enough user information gathered to track threats and report them to police. The company admitted providing user information to police after users threatened protesters at the University of Missouri.

Students there are asking for an equity advocate, a multicultural center and tracking of faculty and staff “micro-aggressions”.

President Michael Roth, past presidents, and the bureaucracy of this institution have actively neglected to address issues that pertain to students of color and empower them with the same level of resources, consideration, and inclusion historically available to white students.

Students across the country protest racism on campus

Here’s a quick recap of what’s been happening at college and university campuses across the country:

The Black Liberation Collective has called for a day of protest against racism on campus.

The group has demanded free tuition for black and indigenous students, that faculties at universities across the country reflect surrounding communities, and that schools divest from the for-profit prison industry.

We’ve seen more than a dozen schools protesting. Actions are happening right now at Princeton, Wesleyan and theUniversity of Cincinnati (among other schools) and more are planned at Stanford University, in Atlanta, Georgia and the University of Pittsburgh, to name a few.

When we talk about higher education, we like to paint it as a different type of system,” Yamiesha Bell, a national organizer with the Black Liberation Collective told The Guardian. “It was built for white men, it was built on stolen land, and it was built on the backs of black people and that’s important for us to realize when we talk about race on campus.”

5.32pm GMT

Here is some of the latest video coming out of the University of Cincinnati, where a student group called the Irate 8 has organized students.

We also know at least one Canadian school, the University of Toronto, has issued a set of demands, asking administrators to hire more black faculty, provide better mental health services to students of color and to divest from the American for-profit prison industry (a demand suggested by the Black Liberation Collective).

Anti-blackness is systemic. And anti-blackness is a choice. In order to address anti-blackness, we must all become anti-racist in our actions.”

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